Friday, December 18, 2015

The aesthetic design of this TV show is... expensive looking. It's also quite sophisticated and beautiful. There are a LOT of different worlds they have to differentiate between, each with their own class systems and such. The story is totally solid with a good mystery to it. Acting and dialog are all top-shelf. I'm pretty happy with binge watching it. Especially whilst rendering.

The opening scene has the best 0-G I've ever seen in a TV show. Honestly it's really hard to pull off. Chance and I think her hair was CG, which makes the most sense. The rest of the zero - G stuff doesn't look nearly as nice but that opening... oof.

I'm envious of the armor the Mars navy wears. The shoulders are particularly nice.

I'm envious of all the chairs in all the cockpits. They're super nice. We have to get our chairs to look that nice.

I'm not a fan of glass cockpits but I do like that hanging Spock viewer thing the character 2nd from the left is looking through.

The costume design is overall very nice. Nice spacesuits. Are they refitted drysuits? I don't know.

They have nice Pip Boys on their wrists.

Ceilings and actual multi-levels on sets. I presume almost all the lighting is on-set. There's a couple beams from above but other than that the actors are kinda getting slapped with practicals.

Another thing which is nice is the wrist lights on spacesuits. Those are also nice.

The helmets are very good. You have to have a lot of faceplate so the audience can see who they're looking at. They do that very well as well as make them look fairly robust.

The chairs. I love all those dang chairs. Even the slightly dumb jump-seats.

This is a good view of what the Pip Boys are like. I so want a Pip Boy. For me.

The CG ships are really quite nice on the whole. Even in multi-hundreds of million-dollar theatrical releases there are some effects which are just... missed. But they hold their own in this series. And it's not like they can reuse a lot of those effects either.

The way the miniguns come out of the hulls of spaceships is a very nice touch.